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Brings back memories. My mother was originally from Brooklyn and although she moved to " Jersey" we visited her family every Sunday. Coney Island was just one of the places my cousins frequently took me too. Can't forget Nathans and that Cyclone!

I've only been to Coney Island once myself. I was in high school and my father was living in Brooklyn at the time and he and my stepmother felt I should have the experience. As a hot dog lover, I was pretty into the whole Nathan's experience. We didn't do much else though other than look around. As much as they wanted me to see it, they really weren't all that into it themselves.

Since I grew up in Brooklyn, and still live here, Coney island will alway be a favorite place to hang out. I've even braved the swinging cars on the Wonder Wheel and rode the Cyclone! Nathans is iconic -- just like Katz Deli--it is more about the experience than the food! :)

The days of the Steeplechase amusement park were the glory days for Coney Island...it sadly was never the same after they closed down and were demolished, but there has been a recnt big push to revitalize the area with new rides and attractions. Thankfully it has become family friendly again!

We're interested in bungalows! The Coney Island History Project has an online archive of oral history interviews with people who have memories of Coney Island. There are also a few photos of bungalow colonies on our blog Ask Mr Coney Island. If your family would like to share stories, visit us next time you come to Coney Island!

My grandparents lived in one of the apartment houses behind the Wonder Wheel so I spent many days on the beach there. The aroma from the Banomo Turkish Taffy factory added to the ambience. A trip to the aquarium and a day on the beach....what could be better? We returned last summer. You missed the large groups on the boardwalk playing music.and the funky bar the city closed (or did they get to stay open?) A fun place when you live in the city....you don't need a car and the beach is free. (You had to have the fries with the hot dog.)

I spent the first seven years of my life in Coney Island. Every Friday night in the summer there were fireworks you could see outside our apartment window. If we were really good, Mom and Dad would take us to the boardwalk to watch them and we would get a potato knish. I can still taste it, and have never had one again that was as good. Certainly we ate the Nathan's (or other) hot dogs, but as a true carb gal it was the potato products that I craved most (and still do all these many years later).

I've never been to Coney Island, either. I think I'm close to a much smaller version, at the Santa Cruz Beach and Boardwalk. Fun people watching, for sure. I still love roller coasters. It's the ones that spin you around that I can't handle. You two look great together, as always.

The photos totally reminded me of the boardwalk in Ocean City MD or Rehoboth. We don't have anything like that in Washington (or along the west coast I would think) so the look, the rides, the food, the people, is so unique. I don't think my parents ever went to Coney Island either.

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